“Man dwells apart, though not alone,
He walks among his peers unread;
The best of thoughts which he hath known
For lack of listeners are not said.”

— Jean Ingelow

"Afterthought", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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British writer 1820–1897

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